At Santa Lucía, each volunteer leaves an indelible mark, and the experiences they share enrich our entire community. Today, we want to...

The third week of March 2025 saw quite a few very intense days of monitoring in the Santa Lucía Cloud Forest Reserve. The focus was...

I have been lucky enough to spend time at Santa Lucía as a student, researcher, and volunteer. I first visited Santa Lucía when I visited...

While we are currently hosting a group of 13 students of the S.I.T. program in our reserve we also did three days of monitoring in...

We have continuously monitored the Santa Lucía Cloud Forest Reserve with camera traps now since 2016. Initially the project was co-funded...

January 2025 was the most average of all Januarys (since 2018) of which we have taken data. So far the average rainfall in January at the...

January tends to be one of the busiest months in terms of tourism in Santa Lucía. This year it's a little different as the student groups...

Our orchid garden is currently being renovated. It was time to change some of the wires from which the orchids are hanging and also to...

Last week we ran our macroinvertebrate monitoring again. We monitored two river within and one river outside of the Santa Lucía reserve....

Earlier this week two students of the S.I.T. program arrived at Nanegal to run their semester projects here. This time around they won't...

Inspired by training held in Santa Lucía in August and some very successfull forest school events on aquatic macroinvertebrates we will...

Yesterday we waved good-bye to students of St. Olaf College who visited us for four days. We were also quite happy to learn that our...

Diastema is a genus in the Gesneriaceae family. We have at least one species of that genus present in the Santa Lucía reserve. It's a...

On 23rd of July we invited the kids of our local forest school to meet students and staff of Lincoln University which are currently...

The Central American Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) is a rodent that is commonly directly seen as well as photographed by camera traps in...

A group of 16 students of the University of Oregeon is visiting the Santa Lucía Reserve. They are led by professor Tobias Policha, a...

Yesterday we finally held another forest school event. Traditionally in May Nanegal, the parrish that Santa Lucía belongs, has its annual...

Although we have a weather station that's sending data to the internet we still maintain taking the rain data manually as some sort of...

2022 was a very successfull year for Santa Lucía in terms of research and student groups. A total of 17 groups of 10 or more students...

We are happy announce that after three years we were finally able to receive a student group of the University of Lincoln, UK, again in...